Advancing the Best Practices in Youth Justice: Comprehensive and accessible research on the core practices driving youth justice transformation

This infographic series on advancing best practices in youth justice from the RFK Community Alliance’s National Resource Center for the Transformation of Youth Justice provides accessible research on core practices driving change in youth justice and includes research on adolescent development and emerging adulthood, positive youth development and growth-focused case management, the negative effects of formal processing, diversion, graduated response systems, and more.

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Categories: Policy Tool, Resource Library
Tags: Adolescent Development, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Age as Mitigation, Amenability or Capacity to Change, Collateral Consequences, Cross-Systems Collaboration, Culpability, Desistance, Developmental Maturity, Diversion, Dual-Status or Crossover Youth, Emerging Adults, Harms of Incarceration, Health and Mental Health, Identity Development, Lack of Foreseeability, Parents or Guardians, Peer Pressure and Influence, Positive Youth Development, Probation, Racial and Ethnic Disparities, Rearrest or Recidivism, Risk Assessments, Socioemotional Development, Trauma